Pennie Smith went to be with her Lord and Savior Tuesday, April 27, 2021, at the age of 83.
Born Penelope Dorothy Peet May 30, 1937, in Chicago, Ill., she was the daughter of the late Walter and Dorothy Brouyette Peet. As a child, she spent her summers with her cousins in the Chicago suburbs. She attended boarding school, and her spirit of adventure led her to enlist in the Navy. After an honorable discharge, she lived in New Orleans where she enjoyed her love of cooking, music and dance — dancing anything from a jig to a Fais-do-do. At a moment’s notice, her little feet, her beautiful smile (complete with red lipstick) brought any room alive with her high energy and impish beauty.
She moved on to Miami where she met her husband, Donald Smith, also a previous Navy man. They flourished in Miami into a small family of four with two Great Danes, one dachshund, one cat and a fish.
They moved to Ellijay, where they traded their fast cars and ocean fishing for riding motorcycles in the mountains, gardening, hunting and lived a simpler life. It was here that she recommitted her life to her Lord and focused on studying his word.
She would always accept a challenge, using her sewing expertise to create an extensive sewing room for anything from jeans to dog clothes. Her talents ranged from working for a senator, credit collections, running a restaurant, using a jack hammer or any other power tool, to doing cartwheels with her granddaughters at age 70. She loved fully. She loved completely, with every thing in her being. She was faithful, loyal, committed and she kept her promises at all costs, all traits of a true “Brouyette Woman.” Her parents would be so proud of her as is her surviving family.
She is survived by daughters, Vikki Smith Martin (Kenneth), Trina Smith; and granddaughters, Kendra, Essie, Moriah Martin, Claire and Sarah Heyrman; and adopted son, Rocky Lane, her diamond in the rough.
Her beautiful light is dimmed here on Earth, but shines bright, as our beacon in God’s heaven.
Memorial services will be held at 11 a.m., Thursday, June 10, 2021, at Logan Funeral Home Pavilion with North Georgia Honor Guard officiating.
Interment will be at the Georgia National Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, please follow her or join her in supporting CBN (The Christian Broadcasting Network) or The National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
Condolences can be made at www.loganfuneralhome.com.
Logan Funeral Home & Chapel was in charge of arrangements.